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		<title>The 3 by 3 Rule — Part One</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-3-by-3-rule-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content:
Part One — Formal Scheme
Part Two — Historical Examples
Part Three — Where are we now?

Part One — Formal Scheme
Growth:
First G(eneration) – The Warrior – Liberator
Second G. – The Lawgiver – Justice
Third G. – The Builder – Infrastracture
Glory:
Fourth G. – The Warrior &#8211; Enslaver
Fifth G. – The Lawgiver – Injustice
Sixth G. – The Builder – Luxary
Decline:
Seventh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=498&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abolish Mixed-Gender Schools NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: &#8220;Why are our kids so messed up?&#8221; &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t these students try to stop the crime?&#8221; &#8220;What&#8217;s happening in our schools?&#8221;
—Ask the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=495&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Real Gold Standard Please Stand Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[coin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of gold and silver coin has no inherent weakness. It is the concept of legal tender that is flawed and unjust. By fixing the rate of exchange between gold and silver, and declaring what constituted legal tender, the powers that be seriously intervened within what was supposed to be a free market. Any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=492&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Healthcare Causes Economic Ruin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us assume that the US will implement healthcare reform that provides adequate care to those without insurance and those who are underinsured, what would be the consequences of such a move?
For the sake of argument I will assume that any reform is actually affordable. Increased healthcare will result in the following:
1.	Longer lifespan: This will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=488&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much is One Plus One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One plus one equals zero
Fuel and a match are nothing
One plus one equals one
Water and water is water
One plus one equals two
A man and another man are two men
One plus one equals three
A man and a woman are parents to a child
One plus one equals four
A product of two lines is a square
One plus one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=485&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here is my Handle Here is my Spout</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[deflation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the future bring deflation or inflation? Some have reasoned that since there was deflation during the thirties and as we are going into a similar situation then we should expect deflation. The events since last year has certainly confirmed their predictions.
The fact is life is never that easy and such simplistic—typically English empirical—analysis based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=481&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Squalid Old World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1984]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was quoted in the Wikipedia article Brave New World:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=472&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Introduction of the Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/gold-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In High Treason in Zimbabwe I suggested the introduction of a gold coin, which I called the Zimbi, to solve the hyperinflation of Zimbabwe:
The zimbi would have turned the monetary system of Zimbabwe from the weakest on Earth to the only one based on gold, thus ensuring that Zimbabwe becomes the world’s only country with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=464&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Lesson (18)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Chesney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Battle of Dorking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But our people could not be got to see how artificial our prosperity was—that it all rested on foreign trade and financial credit; that the course of trade once turned away from us, even for a time, it might never return; and that our credit once shaken might never be restored.&#8221;
—George Chesney, The Battle of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=460&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Isaac Newton did it without Super-Computers</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/isaac-newton-super-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonemiss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accelerators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higgs boson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modernity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is dedicated to those who are still reading and to the dead,
who cannot read anymore.
In Scale Appreciation in Modern Science I wrote the following:
Almost all resources have been put towards developing better computational implementations and bigger computational capacity; while very little has been devoted to developing theories that need less computation.
Now we read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&blog=2842940&post=452&subd=appliedphilosophy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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